For this recording, missing parts in Tartini's concertos were completed by the transcriber, Nicola Reniero, based on a deep knowledge of Tartini's musical language.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Tartini's 'second creative period,' starting around 1735, showed a more virtuosic instrumental style, free from Vivaldian influence, and an increased expressive search in slow movements.
Recording & Production
The recording project faced challenges due to Tartini's manuscripts, which are often dense, disorderly, and contain frequent corrections, erasures, and missing note-heads.
Interpretation
The performers chose a pitch of A=442 Hz for this recording, based on the typical pitch used in Tartini's time and region.
Composer Biography
Giuseppe Tartini, an 18th-century Italian composer, focused his entire musical output on the violin, his instrument of choice.
Composition History
Tartini composed 135 Violin Concertos and about 200 Sonatas for violin and basso continuo, forming the main body of his musical legacy.
Composition History
Most of Tartini's violin concertos exist only in manuscript form, as he, like many composers of his century, did not date his compositions.
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